Manifolding



Aug. 22, 1939. Q w BRNN 2,169,994

MANIFOLDING Fld Jan. l5, 1936 IVVENTOR BY A RNEY Patented Aug. 22, l

UNITED STATES PATENT orifice MANrroLnnve Application January 13, 1936, Serial No. 58,863

1 Claim.

This invention relates to manifolding, and more particularly, to a pack of continuous strips which may be easily divided into bound sets of superposed record and transfer sheets so that entries may be made in corresponding designated spaces on all the record sheets.

An object of this invention is to provide means for facilitating the stripping of the carbon sheets from the records after the entries are made and the record sheets are to be separated and distributed to various places.

Heretofore, it was proposed to secure the continuous record and carbon strips together at transverse stub-like marginal portions of the l5 records so that a severed superposed set of sheets may be held together at one end by the ngers of one hand while the record sheets are torn one after another from the stub along weakening severance lines. A v According to the present invention, provision is made for separating all of the records simultaneously from the stub portion. For this purpose, the carbon sheets, at their transverse margins opposite the stub portion, are provided with grip-escape apertures or spaces so that the record sheets may all be gripped together by the ngers of one hand to be pulled or snapped simultaneously from the stub portion which retains the carbon sheets. 3G According to this invention, these grip-escape spaces are produced as the result oi the operation ci tearing one set oi' forms from the continuous pile, for the lines of severance in the continuous carbon strips have divergent segments 35 extending into the next adjacent form and defming a tab which is removed from the next .adjacent form when the 'written form is severed on the form, the tab remains in place and transao fers to the underlying record strip matter produced over it on the upper strip.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates d5 several forms of the invention- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pile of record and carbon strips made according to this invention. l

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the pile sie of strips.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a modification of the pile of strips shown in Figs. 1 and 2 in which the record strips are provided with marginal feeding bands apertures to engage pin-wheel gg feeding devices.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the carbon strip employed in the forms of the invention shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a severed bound set of record and carbon sheets being 5 gripped at opposite ends for stripping purposes.

Fig. 6 is a similar view but showing the record strips as having been snapped away from the stub portions of the bound set of sheets.

As shown in the accompanying drawing, the 10 pack of the present invention comprises a plurality of continuous runnerl record strips l which are usually provided with printed matter Il providing delineated spaces to receive notations. The margins of the record strips I0 are some- 15 times plain, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but they. may, if desired, be provided with feeding bands I2 at one or both sides of the strips, as shown on the record strips I3 illustrated in Fig. 3. The

feeding bands usually have holes or apertures I4 20' to engage pin-wheel feeding devices on the type- Writer or other machine in which the paper supply is used.

Between each two record strips there is provided a continuous runner carbon strip l5, which 25 may be as wide as the record strips as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or which may be narrower than the record strips so as to leave the feeding bands l2 free of interposed carbon,- as shown in Fig. 3.

The carbon strips are provided so that data lled in on the uppermost strip will be reproduced on the lower strips.

The record and carbon strips are divided into sheet lengths ita and u respectively of trans- Verse lines by periorations i5 or other weakening 35 severance lines. h1 bringing the strips together during the manufacture oi the pile, the record sheets Hic and carbon sheets i511 are caused to be substantially superposed so that the lines of severance i5 in the record and carbon strips are 40 in registration depthwise of thepile, and this makes it convenient to fold 4the strip zigzag to form a block or pack li, as shownin Fig. 1. Usually, when one set of forms of sheet lengths ma has been written upon, the superposed group of sheets ita is severed from the remaining portion of the pile along the lines of severance IB and the various sheets are distributed in devious ways.

However, it is sometimes desired to maintain the record sheets ma and carbon sheets I 5a together after the first writing operations have been performed so that subsequent entries made on the uppermost record sheet will be produced in the same place onv the lower record sheet or sheets. For this purpose, the record and carbon strips are secured together at form length intervals by staples i8, or other fastening means. As shown, three staples I8 are provided at the top of each group of sheet lengths and spaced somewhat from the transverse lines of severance I6. Accordingly, when the sheet lengths l a, and la are severed, they will be held together in registration.

When this is done, and the final entries have been made on the booklet of record and carbon sheets, it is desired to separate the records from the carbons and distribute the records to various places, This may be done of course by removing the staples and taking one record sheet after the other from the pile. It is preferable, however, for this purpose to provide a stub portion I9 for each group of sheets within which the staples i8 are located, and which is dened by transverse weakening linesy 20 in the record sheets.

According to the present invention, transverse lines or perforations 2l) are provided only in the record strips and are of such nature that all the record strips may be gripped together and snapped as a unit from the stub and the carbons being bound in the stub will remain with the latter.

To permit the records tobe gripped together, and independent of the carbons, provision is made by the present invention whereby in each booklet of bound record and carbon sheets there is a grip-escape aperture 2i, shown in dotted lines in Figs. 5 and 6, in the carbon sheets at the edge thereof opposite the stub I9. When the record strips are gripped over this grip-escape aperture 2| by the fingers of one hand, as shown in Fig. 5 and the stub portion i9 is gripped by the fingers of the other hand, and the two hands are drawn apart as shown in Fig. 6, the record sheets will be removed as a unit from the carbon sheets and the binding Stub.

The grip-escape apertures 2l may be formed in the carbon strip by blanking out a segment u of each carbon sheet, but if this were done it would leave a portion of each record beneath which there would be no transfer material. Accordingly, in manufacturing the carbon strip, as shown in Fig. 4, the line of severance i6 is interrupted by a cut 23 'diverging from the transverse lines and providing a tab portion 22 on one carbon sheet a extending into the embryonic' grip-escape aperture 2l in the next adjacent sheet length I5.

Hence, when the record and transfer strips Illa and |541, are severed along the lines of weakness IS, a tab 22 will project from one transverse margin of the booklet of sheets while the gripescape aperture 2| will be located at the other end of the booklet of sheets. The cut 23 need not be continuous and may be interrupted by a tie 24 for holding the tab intact with the next adjacent form.

It will be seen that while in strip form portions of the record strips directly over the embryonic grip-escape aperture may be written upon, and that the writing will be reproduced on the lower strips because the carbon sheet is complete at that time, and that it is not until the set of forms is severed from the pile that the grip-escape opening 2l is produced.

Variations and modications may be made within the scope of this invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

I claim:

A manifolding pack comprising a plurality of continuous runner record strips; a continuous transfer strip interleaved between each two record strips in superposed relation, said strips being longer than a single form length and being provided at form length intervals with regi.,- tered transverse weakening severance lines along which the strips may collectively be severed into form lengths to provide a set of record and transfer sheets, each form length of the transfer strip having a tab lying in a space in the next adjacent form length of the transfer strip to provide a-grip-escape space at one margin of the transfer sheet of each Severed set of form length record and transfer sheets as a result of the severing thereof; means securing each set of superposed form lengths of record and transfer sheets together along margins thereof transverse to the length of the pack, and transverse lines of severance in the record strips adjacent the rst-named lines of severance but spaced from the latter beyond said securing means, said transverse lines of severance in the record strips defining stub portions over which the record sheets of a form length set of record and transfer sheets may be snapped when all the sheets of said set are held by the stub portion with the ngers of one hand while the record sheets of said set are gripped, separately from the transfer sheets and over the grip-escape spaces at the margin of the record sheets remote from Ithe stub portion, with the fingers of the other hand.

CARL W. BRENN. 

